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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

Prairie fires were, on the rampage
tins last week but no damage ia tliis
vicinity unless it was, to scorch q end
Of Il tree claim. e.
Horses and horses Of all descripflo0s
help to break the mOuotopy, HANDLE.
tOniaN, Clydps. Belgian, NOrmans. Sax-
ons, Celts. Gauls and Scrubs help "a
beantify tie rural scenery, with now
and then Short Horn, jersey, Guern-
sey and those black ones, you know,
without horns. ....~- 80.
Now the gardener il throwing him
self, or the dirt, and il we have q little
rain now and then. why We will show
You q garden ~ Is u garden. a
Paul Schmidt is up to Sioux Falls.
WHAT TRUE MERIT WILL DO.
The unprecedented sale Of Boschees
German Syrup within 4 few years, has
astOnished the world. II il without
doubt the safest and best remedy ever
discovered for the speedy and elfectnal
cure of Coughs, Colds and the ysevprest
Lung troubles. It acts on an entirely
different principle from the usual pre-
scrptions given by pl,ysicians, as it
does not dry up a Cough aud leave the
disease still in the system, but on the
contrary removes the cause Of the
trouble. heals the parts affected and
leaves them in purely healthy c0nii.
tion. A b"ttle kept in the hOnse for
use when the diseases make their aT-
pearance, will saye doctors bills and n
long spell uf serious illness. A trial
will convince you Of these facts. 1t is
positively sold bv all druggists and:
general dealers in the land. Price, 75c
large bottles.
The Rock Rapids Reporter has
this to at1d to Our remarks on pat
ronizing home papers with liberal ad-
vertising:
Rock Rapids has a few men who
want the local papers to boom the
town who do not even pay $3.50 for
a subscription to either paper. They
are few however. Rock Rapids bus
mess men as class, are liberal, pro-
gressive, and know the virtues of
printers ink. Support the home pa
per and it then can speak for its in
stitutions.
The most painful cases of rheuma-
tism may be relieved by q few applica-
tions of ChamberlAin's Pain Balm; its
continued use will cure any case, no
matter of how long standing. The rec:
ord of this pain relieving medicine is
wonderful. 1t is equally beneficial for
lame back. pain in side, shoulder lame.
ness, and in all pain affections rrqnir-.
ing an external remedy. n trial will
convince any person that the above
statement is correct. Chamberlain 3
Pain Balm is sold by e. w. Smith.
The Advance thinks the Burlington
will this season build north from Vor--
thington to connect with the Mime
apOliS Il st. Louis road, ard south to-
connect with the Sioux Falls branch of
the Burlington. The rens"ns for the
belief are not visible to any oue else.
h"wever.-Sibley Tribune.
We have doubts about the road be-
ing built this summer. Bnt that short
cut from Sioux Falls to Minneapolis j.
down on the map, and the Tribune
could se' the 're'son,' If it would take
the trouble.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
BREWSTER.

Wheat and oats all sown.
The fields and prairie begin to look
green.
We hear of two or three small fields
of flax being sown.
Joseph Ebert intends to fence pas
ture this spring.
n. White and Mrs. COvey went to
S!ayton last Friday 20 attend the fu-
neral of their sister.
An infant child Of Philip McCarvel
died last Thursday and WAS buried
Friday.
The summer term Of school hegan
here last Monday, Miss Hattie Miller,
teacher.
G. Lenzen arrived Friday from Shak.
opee, and will work his farm this sum-
mer. He brought Car load of horses
and stock.
Mrs. Paist and son of Graham Lakes,
and Mrs. j. T. Greene of Little Rock.
were guests Of Mrs. Laird last Thurs
day.
w. Peverill will be here the first of
May and bring herd of cattle. and
help the boys with their farm work.
S. Tow has 80 acres of crop sown on
his farm on section IS, and will break
all lie can this spring and sow with
flax.
Merchant Geyermann intends rum
ming creamery here this summer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
ELK.

Seeding is about all done and the
early sown grain is up and looks prom.
ising.
A good many are breaking for flax.
Mr.. Swenson has built new house
on section q.
Spring keeps up its disaereeable
trick of taking a step backward occ;.-
siOnally causing more or less grum.
bling among those VIII" still have lin
gering symptoms of ''fevers."
Our boom has not begun yet bnt set
tiers who come to stay keep dropping
in and going to work, building. break
ing and otherwise making preparations
for the future.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

The Slayton Gazette writes up the
"rhree Falls Railroad" as one which
Slayton is likely to secure and sends
it down to Sioux City via Adrian.
Beware of paper" railroads, Bro.
Herr, beware This road is still "in
the air." and may not be anything of
a shower, either.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
WILLMONT

Another cold spell, hope it to be the
last one, for the spring of '87.
Prairie flowers have made their ap
pearance.
l.. Holtum has commenced TO draw
out the cellar for his new house.
The Co.. Supt. visited the schools in
this town Monday.
Sheriff Anderson was in town last
week on official business.
WIN. Duventagcer will build 4 new
barn, lSx36. right after seeding is
done.
80 Cooper WAS around last Fridav
looking for young stock :" buy.
Last Wednesday we heard the hmm
0t the thr+Sher again in this town
Notices are posted in the nrthwes,
corner Of the town, for the FIRST sc,,m,)
meeting of district 81.
ii. Pass has a yonng colt which was
born entirely blind. W1LLMONr.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
BUcKLEN.s ARNICA sALvE.

-, BVCKLBN'S ARNICA SALYE.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores. ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores. letter. chapped hands, chilblains,
corn". and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
1t Is guaranteed to give perfect salts.
faction, or money refunded. Price rs
cents per box. For sale by G. W.
Smith,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
DEWALD

Prairie fires ran over the northeast
part of town on the 18th.
Seeding is we'll along except flax
The soft blizzard Of last Friday and
the freeze at night stopped seeding \
short time.
Chas. a. Snndb' rc has honght l iC
acres of the old Grissell place for'abuut
five dollars per acre.
Mr.. W. r. Wilson has bought u span
Of mares of VIM. Norman. Within y
week each Of them had 4 fine colt. All
are doing we'll. That is what I call
good luck. SEC. u.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
THE CYCLONE-

The era of cyclones is not over, it
seems, and there are prophets who
think this is to be the eliminating
year. Be this rs it may, the year starts
out we'll end singular enough. the first
one springs apparently out of hollow
in the gfound down near the staid old
town of st. Clairsville, in eastern Ohio,
and scatters barns and houses right
and left, moving a swath as far as the
vicinity Of Wheeling, in West Virgin
ia. The details of this one have not
all been published, until another
swoops down upon Prescott, Kansas.
and obliterates the town, leaving not
one stone upon another. Some 18 to
20 persons were killed by this monster
1t seems to have originated in the In
dian Territory, and passed also oyer
portions of Missouri and Arkansas,
destroying property and life in Ver-
non county, No., and in Franklin
county, Ark.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

SEWARD. 49,
l.. II. Baxter has moved tn his place
near WOrthington.
Freddie and Luther Bloom have
been down from Woodstock visiting
their brother, W. E.
There are three families living in the
Radent house.
There is lumber on the ground for 4
new house aud barn on the nj Of sec.
II. Also for a house on the NIT Sec
tiOn 81.
A family has moved into the Gage
house temporarily until they can build
one of their own.
Mr.. Hildom brought colt twb years
old with him from Iowa, which weighs
1900 pounds.
Louis B. Wallis team ran away with
him. No serious damage.
We hear of parties quarreling over
ground to put flax on.
Everybody plowing for corn.
COUNTRY JAKE.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
RDSHMGRE

Mrs. Schaefer and daughter left for
Sioux Falls Saturday. Will take part
N the concert at the Opera House at
that city on Thursday of this week.
A. G. Seney's left for their home af-
ter pleasant visit with the old.folks.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
HERSEY.

Peverill Bros. have in $50 acres OF
oats and barley, which was put in in
six days.
Geo. Gordon's house caught fire re-
Gently and hole was burned in it
about ten feet square. 1t happened in
the night and they narrowly escaped.
Jos. Ebert has purchased u new four
horse pulverizer.
A car load Of rmigrant goods arrived
yesterday. Didn't learn the owner g
name.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

Gerald r. Greg committed suicide
at Sibley last week by taking lauda.
mum. He went to a grove south OF
town, swallowed dose of laudanum,
and was found several days after.
ward resting as if in sleep. He was
a young Englishman and clerk in
the Office of the Iowa Land Co.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

It you can't get "Briar Pipe" snok-
ing tobacco of your merchant, send
Spaulding y Merrick, Chicago, five
two-cent stamps for four ounces.
Write your address plainly. IS If
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

Nothing succeeds like success ex-
cept "Briar Pipe smoking nd - Charm
OF the West'ehewjhg tobaccos. Both
are a success. ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

SHALL WE HAVE A SYNDICA TE7
The suggestion made in last weeks
issue Of the ADVANCE that q local syn
dicate be organized and fund raised
for the purpose Of developing our man.
nfacturing and other interests. is
thought to be . good one by practical
citizens. Some of our monied men
think that 100000 could be raised. If
so, and the fund can be used rs out
lined in a former article, we can as
sure our people that Worthington can.
in a few years, be made something
more than a beautiful little "Arbor
City," beautiful externally.) where
city people can spend quiet summer
and city sportsmen find good quarters
during the chicken season.
We again recur to the fact that
towns and cities are made. They do
not grow any more than the macl,in-
cry in factory grows. They must he
made and put there. And we can
make and ''put there" a fine little city
right on the banks of the Okabenas by
simply putting the money into flour
ing, oat meal, oil, paper aud other
mills.
While looking over the ADVANCE
property on the corner of 1Oth-st. and
4th-av. the other day. and thinking
about this matter Of making a town,
it occurred to US that there was not q
building on these lots, not a fence, not
a tree, not blade of tame grass, not
the smallest chip. not lump of coal
the size of marble, not shovel full
of ashes, that we did not put there and
pay money for, money wrung from
country printing Office by hard work
with coat off and sleeves rolled up.
Everything to be seen there today, ex-
cept few spears of wild grass, had to
be bought with a price" land big
freight added) and put there by hard
work.
What is true of the lots which few
years ago were vacant waste, is true
"f yonr town sites and of all the
ground under and about Worthington.
A fine little manufacturing city of
5000 to 10000 people can he put here
by simply doing it. It will never grow
here spontaneously.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

What's in 4 name?-well, if yon ever
buy any other than ''Briar Pipe'' smo-
king t"bacc", you will find ont there is
good deal III the name "Briar Pipe. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

WANTED-A man to work on farm
for ono year. One span Of heavy
mares. (29tf) GEO. j. DAY.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
RA NSOM.

Geo. Childs, from Massachusetts,
has been visiting Graves Bros. and
seems we'll pleased with Minnesota.
Farmers are sowing more wheat
than usual, and will raise more feed
and less flax.
Graves Bros. will do considerable
breaking and we hear that Il good deal
will he done in this town.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
COUNTY NEWS.
LORAIN.

LOkdlN.
Thomas Selby lost a yearling the
other day. Got separated from the
others aud got Into the creek and
chilled.
Wheat. oats and barley is up and
looks we'll.
Some of the farmers are thinking of
another dry season. Guess they will
he fooled.
Miss Ada Payne has commenced her
school in Elk township.
Shell u Smith have rented their land
to E. COvey, to put it in oats.
Winter set in again on Friday with
snow storm.
John Moffat's cattle strayed away
In the storm on Friday. Found part
of them on Saturday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
SCROFULA

I do not believe that
Ssrsaparilla has
an equal as = remedy
for Scrofulous HUI.
inors. 1t n pleasant
to take, gives strength
and vigOr to the body,
and produces a more
permanent. lasting, re.
suit than any medicine
l ever used.-E.
Hafnes, No. Lintlale, o.
I have used Ayers
Sarsaparilla, in my fam.
lily, for ScrOfula, and
know, II It Is taken
faithfully, It will
thoroughly eradicate
this terrible disease.
W. +. Fowler, n. D.,
Greenville, Tenn.
For forty years I
have suffered with Fry.
sipelas. l have tried
all sorts Of remedies
for my complaint, hut
found no relief until l
co III m enced using
Ayers SarsaparillS.
After taking ten bot.
tles Of tl,ix medicine I
am completely cured.
Mary c. Amesbury,
Rockport, Nc.
L nave HullleIeU, 1OF
years, from Catarrb,
which was 20 severe
that Il destroyed my
appetite and weakened
my system. After try.
Ing other remedies,
and getting no relief. I
began to take Ayers
Ssrsaparilla, and, in .
few months, was cured.
Susan l.. Cook, 900
Albany st., Boston
Highlands, Mass.
Ayers Sarsaparilla
ts superior to any blood
purifier that I have
ever tried. I have
taken It for Scrofula,
Canker, and Salt
Rheum, and received
much benefit from It.
1t II good, also, for .
weak stOmSch.-Millie
Jane Peirce, South
Bradford, Mass.
arsapari||a,
Aver 4 Co., Lowell, Nase.
six bottles, 06.
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

The exhausted and drowsy feelings
common to spring time. indicate an
impure and sluggish condition If the
blood. which may be remedied by the
use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t is the
most powerful, and ut the same time
most economical blood purifier known.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
THE LONG AND SHORT HAUL
4 YYON

The convention of Minnesota Boards
of Trade held at Faribault recently
brought out great deal of informa-
tion concerning freight rates and dis
ordinations. Some of the articles
drawn from practical railroad men
who favor the clause also abound in
Information for the people.
The general opinion of all who favor
the clause is that it will work to the
development of the interior towns and
cities and take from the great centres
like Chicago their power to crush ont
interior points. No doubt this view is
largely true and that much of the
''boom" which is now raging at scores
Of interior cities and towns is due to
the expectation that this clause will
be enforced. - -- -sa.
OF course the clause is not a new
thing, for it has been in force in Mas
sachusetts for some time and is said to
work greatly to the advantage of the
smaller towns and country districts.
THE "WHITED SRPULCHREs' AGAIN.
Rev. E. r. Lathrop took the trouble
to write to Sioux City concerning the
article copied in last weeks ADVANCE
as to the neglect of "Bism arck s." wife
and child by the Christian element.
He received the following reply from
prominent citizen.
Rev. E. Il. LathrOp. Worthington.
MINI. Dear Sir:-Yours of the 22nd
inst. is at hand. The article referred
to in the Sioux City journal was a
slander on the Christian people of the
city, and was corrected in the next is
sue. The facts are that the Chris t an
people did provide a suitable boarding
place for the family, instead of the no.
tel where they had been stopping. Dur
ing the sickness of the child they were
we'll taken care of and supplied with
what was needed. They had good board
with Christian family. suitable cloth
ing provided, help in the care Of the
sick child, and financial aid from 9TH
ers, all or nearly all by the Christian
people of the church.. Some one who
thought he had good chance to SLAM
der the church. took the occasion,
thinking to make = strong case ont of
the sickness and poverty of Bismarck g
family. forgetting to mention the sub
stantia) and active aid at that very
time being rendered by the church.
The father was allowed to be with the
family during the sickness and death
of the child, and all that could be done
for them was done.
Yours Respectfully.
WM. TACKARERRY.
This makes good showing for the
other side, and we are pleased to give
both sides hearing.
So far as our own comments were
concerned, they were general, and d.
rected to religious bigotry and prohibi-
ton or other fanaticism, which we
said. land we still say it, are even
worse to destroy human and Christian
feeling than whisky. And this opin-
ion is not based altogether upon the
bloody prosecutions of history, but up
on actual observation here in Worth
ington, where this devilish spirit has
often driven It's narrow and weak vic
tins to justify all manner of outrage
against their superiOrs and hetters
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
EXCITEMENT IN TEXAS.

Great excitement has been caused it,
the vicinity of Paris. Texas, 10y the r..
markable recovery Of MIR. }. T.. Corley,
who was 50 helpless he could not turn
in bed. or raise his head; everybody
said he was dying Of consumption. A
tri.! bottle of Dr. Kings New DiscOv.
Try was sent him. Finding relief: b,
bOu!l a large bottle and box cf I)r
Kings New Life Pills: by the time Q
had taken two boxes "f the Pills Al. Il
two bottles Of the Discovery. he was
we'll and had gained in flesh thirty six
pounds. Trial hotties Of this & rpat
Discovery for Consumption free at e.,
W. Smiths.
I An Austrian living two miles east
"f town WAS arrested last Friday for
wife beating. On examination it was
found that he had chOkei his wife un-
til she was unable to open her mouth
or t" speak. He WAS fined a few del
lars and allowed t" 20. ~
The Republican rarely finds fault,
with an officer of the law and there Is
4 nnssibility that the fine of SIS was
sufficient for the offence committed.
hut it seems to us that this crime q:
wife beating is getting to be Of t. o
common occurrence and that it gete
altogether to" much sympathy from
the court.-Fulda Republican.
This is the case referred to in TIE
ADVANCE Of the l4th. The Kepubli
can came out on the same day with the
ADVANCE but the editorial comment
is about the same. Let these wife.
beaters be investigated.
The exhausted and drowsy feelings
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
WATER WORKS.

AuIOuSu tIlc eUOItS OI Lieut.. Il. b,
Plotts quite an interest was worked up
some months ago in favor of water
works in Worthington. A law was
passed by the legislature last winter
authorizing the people of Worthington
to vote upon issuing $4,000 in bonds
for water works purposes. but there
the matter seems to have ended.
Apropos of this subject, we have be-
fore US some copies of the Swantou
Courier, published at Swanton, w.,
and handed US by Mr.. Geo. w. Crane.
The columns are filled mainly with re-
ports Of water works meetings and
opinions gathered from q number of
towns as to tho working of water sys.
TENS III smaller towns. The general
reply from the surrounding towns is
that the water works pay, that the
towns could not be induced to dispense
with them, and that even those light
suburban taxpayers from whom the
principal opposition always comes, are
heartily in favor of the works after
they have been in operation while.
Swanton is town of about 1,5OO in
habitants, or about tho size of WORTH
ingtOn. It had secured . manufactur.
ing establishment at q cost of about
$4,000, and was in a fair way to se-
cure start as manufacturing point.
1t was suspender, buckle and spring
bed factory combined and was doing a
splendid business. A few evenings ago,
however, the factory was burned, there
being no adequate fire protection in
the town.
This has aroused all Swanton and
the uppermOst subject now is water
works. The proprietors Of the factory
have not decided to rebuild in the
town. One of them on being inter-
viewed, said:
While Swanton has some advant.
ages, the town has a serious dis .dvant-
age IN the lack of fire protection. and
no i've business concern feels like To-
Iage Is in danger Of burning no at anv
time. Our business is growing so fast
and is 80 certain to grow to large pro-
portions, involving large outlay Of
money, that we cannot afford to locate
where there is no protection against
fire. We have got a portable gold
mine in this suspender business, and
il we cannot work in safety here, we
can go where we can.
Here are some suggestions for Wor-
thington which may we'll be wortl,
needing. Would not water works and
electric lights, which could be run by
the same power, be just the induce
ment we need for manufacturing es-
Establishments?
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The ADVANCE has In former years
called attention to the fact that cy-
clOnes seem to have some sort Of intel
NgeDce and feeling. In nearly every
pne recorded for years past q baby
las turned up unhurt after having
been. carried away amid violence
ellOuShst0 destroy regiment of strong
mln. I9 the recent cyclone in Vernon
eopntl No. the family Of John Miller
. wel(e 1illed except the baby. The
dl1t eays: 1.-THE baby, aged two
yea dropped in the yard and
80 nEhurt this morning.